Uttarakhand Science Education & Research Center(U-SERC), Dehradun in Association with Seemant Institute of Technology, Pithoragarh and in Technical collaboration of Computer Society of India and Spoken Tutorial I.I.T, Mumbai organized one day workshop at SIT Pithoragarh. The main theme of the workshop is “Technology Enabled Science Education.”
After the Lamp Lighting ceremony, the inauguration speech by Director, Seemant Institute of Technology Prof(Dr.) B K Singh revealed various important aspects of the technology based Education.
Director of USERC Prof. Durgesh Pant addressed the students through Skype and stressed that a Knowledge corridor in the state will be developed. He also informed about the innumerable efforts of honorable Chief Minister in this direction. In near future 10000 digital volunteers will be developed in the Uttarakhand state. This will help environmental friendly digital India .The use of ICT will enrich Internet based modern education.
This programme was well conducted by Dr. Sumit Joshi, Dr. Ashutosh Bhatt, Coordinator of this Programme and Uttrakhand state student coordinator of computer society of India presented various aspect of the technology based education and recent technological trends of computing. He also informed about the contribution of spoken tutorial IIT Mumbai and Computer society of India to technology based education. Dr. Bhatt shared information about cloud computing technique big data and online lectures by spoken tutorial IIT Mumbai and threw light on the importance of Digital India and Skill India Programme. Dr Neeraj Joshi District Coordinator (Pithoragarh), Uttarakhand Science Education & Research Center(U-SERC) informed about the relevant features of the technical education in India and also stressed its need in the field of overall employment. This will help the country to be amongst the leader in technical education.
Mr Delip Kumar and Mr Sunil Upreti inlighted the Information Communication Technology, Cloud Computing, E-Governance, hands-on-training and their relation with Technology Enabled Education. They also informed that how china and other country using cloud computing in schools. Today Information Communication Technology, Cloud Computing, E-Governance are the necessity of the society.
Finally Director, Seemant Institute of Technology, Pithoragarh, Prof (Dr.) B K Singh, Ashutosh Bhatt and Kamlesh Padaliya awarded prizes and certificates to the students. In the valedictory speech of the workshop Director of the Institute wished for the bright future of the students.